Category: Writer’s Block
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SAD
So, something else had a significant effect on me in the first week of November; the week of the 5th, 2024, a week that will assuredly go down in history. I’ll fall…
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Being American: The Reckoning with My Identity
I am an American. There, I said it. Fifty-three years on this earth, and it’s only now that I’m beginning to understand and accept that fact. Not because I was trying to…
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The Magical Pockets of Coins: Part Penny
When I was a child, I used to think that my father had a magical pocket that was always filled with an endless supply of quarters, nickels, dimes, and pennies. He was…
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The Snitch Debate: What’s in a Name?
Recently I watched an episode of the Stephen A. Show. Not the “dignified” First Take on ESPN, but his podcast on YouTube where he’s allowed to use the choice words that would…
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The Weight
All this life weighs on my neck, leaning harder and harder I can’t wrap my head around this looming stress, growing larger and larger It gets too heavy, rapidly, my brain is…
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The Doomsayers Quadfecta: April 2024 Edition
It was an interesting month here in the northeast. An April nor’easter breezed through dumping three feet of snow in some areas; a rare solar eclipse marched across the sky; and an even rarer…
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Happiness, The Question of
What is it really? Webster’s defines it as a state of well-being and contentment, summed up as joy. It goes on further to define happiness as a pleasurable or satisfying experience. Are…
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Survivor’s Remorse
I just got off the phone with my cousin. The call left me feeling pensive, tense, and hollow. Tomorrow, he’ll have to go to court to face an assault charge. We have…
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The Mind’s Constellation: Nebula of Thoughts
The image accompanying this post is a vivid portrayal of the cerebral dance that unfolds within my mind. Each hour of each day, every day of every week, every week of every…